NORWAY – Selectmen learned Thursday that the $326,700 Deering Street project is moving along at a fast pace.

“They are really flying up there,” said Town Manager David Holt in his report to the board.

Crews from Pratt and Sons of Minot have been rebuilding the street and replacing old sewer lines that were installed in 1913. Work is also being done on the adjacent Longley parking lot to create a town square. Pavement has been taken out and will be replaced by brick pavers to open up an area under the shadow of the Opera House’s clock tower for people to sit and relax under two maple trees.

The town’s kiosk, now on the corner of Cottage and Main streets next to L.F. Pike & Son clothing store, will be moved to a corner of the new town square once it is completed.

Paving of Deering Street may be done on Saturday, Holt said.

“I’m very impressed with the speed they’re doing it,” agreed Selectman Les Flanders.

In other news, selectmen voted to renew a five-year lease with the Community Concepts day care center at the old Methodist Church; appointed Theron Bickford as a part-time police officer; heard an update from the Norway/Paris Solid Waste Committee, and Norway Downtown on its plans to rejuvenate the downtown.

“We want Norway to represent itself in its best possible way,” Andrea Burns of Norway Downtown told selectmen.

The board accepted a check of $64,810 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency as reimbursement for flood-related damage from the April 16 flood. Holt said that additional money, possibly as much as $85,000, could be coming back to the town to pay for more flood mitigation.